We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Caroline Springs, of Caroline Springs. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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Prince William. Kevin Rudd is not scheduled to visit Australia until 2011.
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Brendan Nelson. A nation mourns.
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The World Swimming Championships. The 2010 championships will be held on-line. Swimmers will register and be allocated a suit. They can then follow their suits through the heats and semi-finals on twitter. If a suit gets to the finals and wins, its allocatee is the World Champion and the holder of the new world record in that event.
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The Desal Budget. On the night of October 15th it will be visible in the night sky and at 4.23am it will pass across the face of the moon, plunging the country into darkness.
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‘Senate Inquiry, The Musical’, Written by Godwin Grech and Eric Abetz. Starring Godwin Grech, Eric Abetz and introducing Malcolm Turnbull as Arrogancia.
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Homosexual marriage. The government is also against music, springtime, witty asides and losing the Christian vote.
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True. Bob Maguire’s odds of becoming Pope have lengthened slightly after a big plunge from the Archbishop. Bookies nevertheless rate Bob a good roughie in a very mixed field.
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True. Football players have been enlisted to help get the message across that racist bashings are not on.
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True. Many footballers have been rubbed out for on-field thuggery or are receiving counselling for drug and alcohol abuse, rape allegations and other sporting achievements.
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True. Both projects are going well.
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Barnaby Joyce. Barnaby Rudge is a fictional character; a simple but good hearted boy who unwittingly gets involved in ill advised political grandstanding when he falls in with bad company.
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False. Abetz is not a verb. It is his name. Although we did accept either answer.
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Gillard. A gibbet is an arrangement for displaying the victims of execution, a bollard is a short vertical pillar and a scabbard is a sheath for a sword.
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The North/South pipeline will go ahead. The government is 100% committed to it and it is not negotiable. It has, however, been scaled back slightly due to cost over-runs, and will now run from North Balwyn to South Morang.
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Hawthorn. Exactly one year ago they were filmed by security cameras at the MCG winning a premiership. Anybody who has seen persons matching the players' description should contact Police immediately.
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Malcolm Turnbull. His lecture on the Laws of Evidence has been postponed and moved to a smaller venue.
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False. Aloe Vera is not a greeting. It is a plant that produces an extract, frequently used as a skin lotion.
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Australian Cricket reported a substantial loss for 2H09 and the 1H10 forecast is uncertain. A new business model is being considered. KPIs have been identified as a capacity to score runs going forward and initiatives aimed at lowering the cost of English wickets. The Spinning Division has been sold overseas and the middle order will be outsourced. CEO Richard Ponting says ‘Mistakes have been made, sure. But I’ve got every confidence in the boys’. Sell/High Risk.
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Wilson Tuckey. Cartman is not in the Australian Parliament and would be ineligible for election in any event, since he is a cartoon character.
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Cubbie Station. Belgium is smaller and uses less water.
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Couple number 4 (John and Belinda). The judges agreed: Leaving aside the fact that there were three of you, a lively enough performance but really, at this stage of the competition we should have the basics down. You missed the lift altogether, the turns were a shambles and we could hear you counting. 2 points.
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The Great Wall of China and Australia’s Arts Bureaucracy. The developments in Bahrain are not visible from outer space.
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Joe Hockey. The picture on the right depicts one of those plastic figures they blow air into from the bottom in petrol stations and their arms wave about.
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Tim Holding. Come and see me afterwards. If you think it’s clever to just clear off on your own and not stick with the group, then perhaps you’re not leadership material. Matron and I were worried sick. Don’t you ever do that again.